Hypertext 2008 The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
*** Linking people and places ***
*** Four Autonomous Track Programs, One Unified Conference ***
http://www.ht2008.org/
June 19th-21st 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Workshops proposals due: January 14th 2008
- Technical Paper Stream submission deadline: February 11th 2008
- Posters and Demonstrations submission deadline: March 28th 2008
Call for Papers
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In 2007, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the ACM Conference on
Hypertext and Hypermedia series which is the acknowledged venue for
high quality peer-reviewed research on linking. The web, the semantic
web and the Web 2.0 are all manifestations of the success of the
link. The Hypertext Conference provides the forum for research that
considers links, their semantics, their presentation, the
applications they have been put to, the knowledge that can be derived
from their analysis and their affect of society. If information is
connected, then the connection is called a link, and the Hypertext
Conference is concerned with all research concerning links.
Recent hypertext conferences have experimented with various
approaches to reaching a wider community of researchers and
encouraging them that their work is within the scope of the Hypertext
Conference, and that their submissions will be reviewed by a program
committee that are on the leading edge of their topic. To this end,
this yearıs conference will consist of four independent tracks, each
with their own track committee, coordinated by an overall Program
Chair.
1. Information Linking and Organization (Chairs: Paul de Bra
and Frank Shipman)
2. Social Linking (Chairs: Filippo Menczer and Ciro Cattuto)
3. Applications of Hypertext (Chair: Erik Duval)
4. Hypertext, Culture, and Communication (Chair: Mark Bernstein)
Authors are invited to submit papers directly to these tracks.
However, where authors are unsure of which track to submit to they
are encouraged to discuss the matter with the Program Chair (Hugh
Davis, [log in to unmask]).
Information Linking and Organization
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Throughout the history of the ACM Hypertext Conference, researchers
have tried to capture what hypertext really is, either for hypertext
in general or for specific types of hypertext. The Information
linking and organization program specifically targets the formal
study of scholarly, structural, sculptural, spatial, open, dynamic
and adaptive or any other type of hypertext (or Web-based Information
System). The aim of this track is to bring researchers together to
discuss models, architecture, interfaces, properties, or theory in
general, about hypertext and hypermedia. Topics for consideration
include:
- Hypertext Models
- Spatial Hypertext
- Information Structuring
- Knowledge Management
- Self-Organized Hypertext
- Personal Information Organization
- Intelligent Hypertext,
- Open Hypertext
- Link Generation
- Adaptive Navigation Support
- Web Engineering
Social Linking
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One of the most exciting recent developments in Web science is the
rise of social annotation, by which users can easily markup other
authors' resources via collaborative mechanisms such as tagging,
filtering, voting, editing, classification, and rating. These social
processes lead to the emergence of many types of links between texts,
users, concepts, pages, articles, media, and so on. We welcome
submissions on design, analysis, and modeling of information systems
driven by social linking. Topics of interest include:
- Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
- Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
- User interfaces for collaborative annotation
- Applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation
- Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
- Integration with content-based systems (e.g. linking in blogs)
- Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
- Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
- Analysis of structure and dynamics of social information networks
- Behavioral patterns of social linking
- Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
- Formal and generative models of social annotation
- Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
- Implementation and scalability of social link representations
- Automatic and user-based evaluation
- Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
- Mapping and Visualization of social spaces and networks
Applications of Hypertext
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The applications track focuses on how hypertext approaches and
technologies can be applied in diverse domains, including, but not
restricted to:
- technology enhanced learning
- cultural heritage
- personal information management
- music information retrieval
- performance support systems
- commerce sites
- geo-spatial information systems
- medical and health systems
Proposals can focus more on the technological approaches or on the
added value that the hypertext application provides. User and
evaluation studies are welcome in this track.
Hypertext, Culture, and Communication
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What remains to be learned about the craft of hypertext? Hypertext
'08 seeks contributions - either as conventional papers or as
hypertexts - that explore, examine, and reflect upon the creation of
literary machines ranging from literary fiction to creative
nonfiction and scholarly argumentation. Suggested topics include, but
are not limited to:
- Hypertext literature
- Theory and practice of expression in wikis, weblogs, and social spaces
- Hypertext editing, criticism, and instruction
- Personal journals, weblogs, and social media
- Preservation, archives, and personal media collections
- Net art, literary hypertext, interactive fiction, and games
The Program and Critical Dates
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The Program Committee for Hypertext 2008 are now inviting submissions
of original and previously unpublished research.
All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG
proceedings template
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Accepted papers
will appear in the formal Conference Proceedings, published by ACM.
All material will be available through the ACM Digital Library.
Technical Paper Stream
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February 11th 2008 submission deadline
March 21st 2008 authors informed of results of reviewing
April 4th 2008 final Papers to ACM
Full Papers:
Full technical papers (10 pages) should present significant
scientific advances that are at a mature stage of development. We are
looking for full papers that present relevant contributions to
research, development, and practice in the area of hypertext and
hypermedia. We are also interested in survey papers which present an
authoritative and original perspective on an area of interest.
Short Papers:
Short papers (5 pages) should present interesting recent results or
novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready for a regular
full-length paper, or where the research has limited scope or the
results have lesser significance.
Posters and Demonstrations
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March 28th 2008 submission deadline
April 9th 2008 committee decisions to authors
April 16th 2008 final copy to ACM
Poster presentations and demonstrations (2 pages in the proceedings)
are solicited, which present new ideas, generate interest in a
research area, or describe or demonstrate useful or interesting work
that is not substantial enough for a technical paper presentation.
Workshops
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January 14th 2008 workshop proposals due
February 1st 2008 results of review
Hypertext 2008 invites submissions of a small number of high quality
pre-conference workshops (one day or half day), which allow
participants to discuss leading edge and emerging research themes in
a greater depth than is possible within the main program.
The organization of the workshop will be the responsibility of the
organizers. The submissions should be in the format of the Call for
Papers for workshop and should contain:
- The title of the workshop
- A description of the workshop motivations and topic area. (This can
be 1 -2 pages and will appear in the proceedings)
- A short description of the intended length and format of the workshop
- The names and e-mail addresses of the workshop chairs
- A list of proposed program committee members
- The address of the workshop website, and details of any other
proposed publication medium
- Tentative dates for submission and notification of acceptance.
(Final details of the workshop program and accepted papers need to be
on the website by May 10th 2008, and we request the workshops will
set their paper submission deadline sometime after March 21st so that
it follows the main program cycle.
Hyperdrama Festival (Organizer Mark Bernstein)
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Scripts and proposals are sought for the First International
Hyperdrama Festival, a collection of staged readings and performances
of interactive and interlinked dramatic art in conjunction with
Hypertext '08. Scripts and proposals will be judged for dramatic
merit, hypertextual interest, and produceability; minimal sets and
costumes are encouraged.
Organizaton
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General Chair: Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
Program Chair: Hugh Davis, University of Southampton, UK
LOC Chair: Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Treasurer: Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Program Track Chairs
Information Linking and Organization
Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University, USA
Social Linking
Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, USA
Ciro Cattuto, ISI foundation, Italy
Applications of Hypertext
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Hypertext, Culture, and Communication
Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc., USA
Workshop Chair: David Millard, University of Southampton, UK
Hyperdrama Festival: Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc., USA
Location
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ACM Hypertext 2008 will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
ranked #1 Most Livable City in America. It is co-located and
scheduled directly after ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries (http://www.jcdl2008.org/). The two conferences will meet
again in Pittsburgh, 10 years years after ACM Hypertext 1998 and ACM
Digital Libraries 1998 were last co-located there. In 2008, both
conferences are being hosted by the School of Information Sciences at
the University of Pittsburgh (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/). The
Pittsburgh area is home to more than 25 colleges and universities,
resulting in a vibrant and diverse community of learners and
teachers. The region welcomes more than 10 million visitors each
year, who enjoy amenities and cultural attractions including the
world-class Carnegie Museums, the outstanding Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra and the decades-long tradition of major league sports!
Pittsburgh is centrally located, being within 90 minutes flying time
of the countryıs major metropolitan areas. While being challenged
by the presentations at Hypertext 2008, donıt miss an opportunity to
sample the museums, the performing arts organizations and the cityıs
charming and diverse neighborhoods.
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